Senate Public Health Committee Chair Hob Bryan, D-Amory, said no one is tasked with looking at Mississippi’s overall health care system. That is what he hopes to do in an upcoming meeting of the Public Health Committee.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today November 18, 2022 Bryan’s Public Health Committee is slated to meet at 1:15 Monday afternoon at the state Capitol to address the “financial crisis of hospitals in Mississippi.” State Health Officer Daniel Edney and others have commented on the problems and the possible closure of multiple hospitals across the state. “This is not just a Delta problem,” Bryan said, backing up Edney and others. “It is an overall state problem.
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